Quotes about Development

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.

Chinese proverb says, "If you want to know what water is, don't ask the fish." Most Hindus know little about Hinduism's scriptures or its development in dogma. Most Buddhists know little about Buddhism. Religion is much more a culture to most people than it is a carefully thought-through system of truth. Even Islam finds the same ignorance. Dare I say most Christians know very little about the teaching and history of their own beliefs.

When the mask of Darth Vader is removed, you see an unformed man, one who has not developed as a human individual. What you see is a strange and pitiful sort of undifferentiated face.

There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

Asking for something is easy… being responsible for it is the part that develops character.

I may not be where I need to be but at least I am not where I used to be.